Name: Between Shapes | Helga Gebert
Start: 2026-08-04T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-04T12:00:00+02:00
Location: GRIMMWELT Kassel

Helga Gebert at GRIMMWELT: When Images Continue Stories

With BETWEEN SHAPES, GRIMMWELT Kassel presents the illustrator and author Helga Gebert for the first time in a comprehensive way. The exhibition is dedicated to the art of storytelling in image and word, showing how illustrations accompany, reinterpret, and transform fairy tales, myths, and personal stories.

An Art Experience Between Fairy Tale World and Image Poetry

Helga Gebert's work occupies that delicate intersection where children's and youth literature, visual culture, and literary imagination intersect. The exhibition makes visible how figures, gestures, and directions of gaze become carriers of meaning. Those who walk through these spaces experience not just a mere presentation of works, but an aesthetic experience full of color, rhythm, and narrative tension.

The Art of Continuing, Re- and New-Telling

At the center are illustrations for the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm, for 1001 Nights, as well as originally created stories. This allows Gebert's work to be read art historically as a contribution to the renewal of German children's and youth literature of the 1970s. Her images appear sensitive, playful, and precise at the same time; they condense cultural motifs into a visual language that speaks to generations.

Interactively, Biographically, and Family-Friendly Presented

The exhibition connects the viewing of works with biographical insights, interactive elements, and a puzzle trail for children. An exhibition catalog deepens the view into the life and oeuvre of the artist. Thus, a tour of the exhibition emerges that opens up cultural education in a lively way for both adults and young visitors.

GRIMMWELT Kassel as a Place of Lively Mediation

GRIMMWELT sees itself as a space of experience where art, media, and interaction come together. As the largest exhibition hall in the world dedicated to the life’s work of the Brothers Grimm, it provides the fitting framework for a show that does not let storytelling traditions stagnate in a museum context but makes them experienceable in the present. The visit is also supported by the accessibility features, audio guide options, and diverse mediation formats of the venue.

Conclusion: An Exhibition for Everyone Who Wants to Read Images

BETWEEN SHAPES invites you to an inspiring encounter with Helga Gebert's multifaceted work. Anyone who wishes to discover illustration as an independent art form, see fairy tales anew, and experience a wise, sensory museum visit should definitely visit this exhibition live in Kassel.